Muscadins

The muscadins were mobs of well-off and dandyish young men from Paris, France who took part in the street fighting between the Thermidorians and the Jacobin Club after the Thermidorian Reaction. The Muscadins' name comes from their musk perfume, and they carried wooden clubs called "constitutions" into battle. National Convention member Louis-Marie Stanislas Freron led 3,000 muscadins in the suppression of the sans-culottes from 1794 to 1795 during the First White Terror, but they became a threat to the Convention after the downfall of the Jacobins. Following the 13 Vendemiaire uprising of 1795, they ceased to hold any power, as they had outlived their usefulness.